In politics, you can do anything except make a fool of yourself

The maxim is from Josep Tarradellas, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and its meaning is clear: politics allows alliances, changes of opinion, and complex negotiations, what it does not allow is losing dignity.

Fernando Clavijo, it seems, only read up to "anything can be done," leaving behind the part about avoiding ridicule.

If from the first bars of the Hondius crisis Clavijo's seams were seen, during this weekend he has insisted on making clear in prime time and with scarce national coverage his stature as a ruler and, what is worse, his absolute intellectual indigence.

Positioning his Government by asking an artificial intelligence chat if rats are good swimmers demonstrates the character's lack of seriousness and rigor and his intolerable lack of respect for the Canarian institutions themselves.

He could have, should have, relied on the specialists from the Canary Islands universities and the technicians from his Government, but he opted for the supreme degree of brother-in-law-ism that it means to face a situation of this importance advised by ChatGPT, Gemini or whichever it was, it's all the same, it's all the same.

The one who asked about rats, instead of mice, remains in the realm of anecdote and is nothing more than an additional clumsiness in the face of the seriousness, and it must be insisted upon, that the president of the Canary Islands ignores the scientific knowledge at his disposal and defends us without any further protection than an internet search.

But that ridiculous clumsiness was not enough for him. Used to feeling protected by an entire media ecosystem dedicated to supporting him and hiding his absolute inanity, he had the audacity to lie live and direct on national television, denying having received a scientific report from the Minister of Health that flatly denied the risk of his famous swimming mice.

The denial was so forceful and of such colossal magnitude as to leave us with the doubt of how to qualify Clavijo, whether as a liar or as a fool, that even to lie it is convenient to be a bit sharper.

Above all, so as not to make a fool of oneself in prime time and with national coverage.